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Transforming Agrarian Economies

Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed

By: Thomas P. Tomich,Peter Kilby,Bruce F. Johnston

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Transforming Agrarian Economies

Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed

By: Thomas P. Tomich,Peter Kilby,Bruce F. Johnston

The world's 58 poorest countries are diverse in many respects, but they share the characteristic of a labor force overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture. Challenging the assumption that mass poverty and chronic hunger are insoluble problems, this book systematically explores the multiple aspects of economic development in these countries, which are home to 60 percent of the world's population. The authors offer a broad-based development strategy to raise incomes through agricultural productivity growth and expanded rural employment. They present rich new information on the rural informal sector and on agriculture-industry interactions, and they analyze the impact of macroeconomic and social policies on the rural economy. Policy instruments aimed at bringing about broad-based development are carefully assessed from fiscal policy to development of hew seeds and farm implements. The book includes detailed case studies of countries that have seized—or missed—development opportunities. Comparison of the successful economic transformations of Japan and the United States shows how key ideas, which the authors call strategic notions, have enabled policymakers to act with foresight. Analyses of strategic choices in China, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, Mexico, Kenya, and Tanzania also show how development strategies that emerge from the real-world political economy reflect a mix of individual interests and strategic notions.

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Cornell University Press

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1501717499

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Tropical Forests

Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century

By: Thomas K. Rudel

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Tropical Forests

Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century

By: Thomas K. Rudel

In Tropical Forests, Rudel analyzes hundreds of local studies from the past twenty years to develop a much-needed, global perspective on deforestation. With separate chapters on individual regions, including South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa, Rudel's work offers an up-to-date assessment of the world's tropical forests. In the concluding chapter, Rudel considers the implications of these trends and describes policy directions for conserving biodiversity and promoting sustainable development in each region.

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260

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Columbia University Press

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0231506902

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9780231506908

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Sustaining a Keystone Species

By: Thomas F. Thornton,Madonna L. Moss

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Herring and People of the North Pacific

Sustaining a Keystone Species

By: Thomas F. Thornton,Madonna L. Moss

Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern Hemisphere. Human dependence on herring has evolved for millennia through interactions with key spawning areas—but humans have also significantly impacted the species’ distribution and abundance. Combining ethnological, historical, archaeological, and political perspectives with comparative reference to other North Pacific cultures, Herring and People of the North Pacific traces fishery development in Southeast Alaska from precontact Indigenous relationships with herring to postcontact focus on herring products. Revealing new findings about current herring stocks as well as the fish’s significance to the conservation of intraspecies biodiversity, the book explores the role of traditional local knowledge, in combination with archeological, historical, and biological data, in both understanding marine ecology and restoring herring to their former abundance.

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University of Washington Press

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0295748303

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9780295748306

Transnational Climate Change Governance

By: Harriet Bulkeley,Liliana B. Andonova,Michele M. Betsill,Daniel Compagnon,Thomas Hale,Matthew J. Hoffmann,Peter Newell,Matthew Paterson,Charles Roger,Stacy D. VanDeveer

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Transnational Climate Change Governance

By: Harriet Bulkeley,Liliana B. Andonova,Michele M. Betsill,Daniel Compagnon,Thomas Hale,Matthew J. Hoffmann,Peter Newell,Matthew Paterson,Charles Roger,Stacy D. VanDeveer

The world of climate politics is increasingly no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of transnational governance that cut across traditional state-based jurisdictions and operate across public and private divides. This book provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge account of the world of transnational climate change governance. Co-authored by a team of the world's leading experts in the field and based on a survey of sixty case studies, the book traces the emergence, nature and consequences of this phenomenon, and assesses the implications for the field of global environmental politics. It will prove invaluable for researchers, graduate students and policy makers in climate change, political science, international relations, human geography, sociology and ecological economics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139993399

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Transforming Agrarian Economies

Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed

By: Thomas P. Tomich,Peter Kilby,Bruce F. Johnston

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Opportunities Seized, Opportunities Missed

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Transforming Agrarian Economies

Transforming Agrarian Economies

Tropical Forests

Tropical Forests

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Transnational Climate Change Governance

Transnational Climate Change Governance

Transforming Agrarian Economies

Transforming Agrarian Economies

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